Digital International Corp history

1984: 1st analysis on public diplomacy in a “computerized world.” Written by Allen C. Hansen, “Public Diplomacy in the Computer Age” explores the public diplomacy exerted by the United States Information Agency (UEIA).

For Roy, they go back to his earliest work in new media done in collaboration with the American Social History Project (ASHP) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (and especially Steve Brier and Josh Brown) and the Voyager Company starting in 1990.

tep back in time and open the pages of the inaugural issue of Wired magazine from the spring of 1993, and prophecies of an optimistic digital future call out to you.

Figure 2: The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University was founded in 1994 with the goal of using digital media and computer technology to change the ways that people—scholars, students, and the general public—learn about and use the past.

See also Barbara Quint, “Gale Group to Digitize Most 18th-Century English-Language Books, Doubles Info Trac Holdings,” Information Today (17 June 2002), ↪link 0.27c.

Jeffrey Cymerint, interview, 1 August 2003. For example, the list price for Thomson Corporation’s eighteenth-century digital collection begins at $500,000: Kinley Levack, “Digital ECCOs of the Eighteenth Century,” EContentmag.com (November 2003), ↪link 0.27b.

A 2004 study found that almost half of the Internet users in the United States have created online content by building websites, creating blogs, and posting and sharing files.

Not until January 2005 did the National Archives finally issue guidelines on the archiving of the millions of government web pages. “NARA Guidance on Managing Web Records, January 2005,” NARA, United States National Archives and Records Administration, ↪link 0.21b.

2006: Twitter begins, YouTube is acquired by Google, WikiLeaks starts.

In 2007 Sweden announces it will soon open a virtual embassy in Second Life, the virtual site with a strong online community.

2010: Brian Acton and Jan Koum launch Whatsapp, an app initially created for iPhone to have people’s statuses next to their names.

2012: White House Tweetup (face-to-face meeting of Twitter users for a specific goal). Prime Minister David Cameron arrival for an Official Visit to Washington becomes an open engagement event for the White House Twitter account followers.

Digital Bridge Holdings was formed in 2013 through a partnership between Marc Ganzi and Ben Jenkins (formerly of The Blackstone Group).

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2015: UN Virtual Reality Series launch.

Iceland’s Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson the first Foreign Minister to use Snapchat during his visit to India (April 2016).

AHA Statement on the History of Racist Violence in the United States (June 2020)